Technology Commentary

Companies turn to cloud providers for benefits like scalability, security and high availability, but the offerings are not identical. How can you ensure a good fit?

Op-ed: Planetary impacts, escalating financial costs, and labor exploitation all factor.

"Wolverine" experiment can fix Python bugs at runtime and re-run the code.

What is the essential difference between DRY and SoC principles in software engineering and how do you balance the two

Like a product team, a successful platform team must understand the needs of its ‘customers’ and stakeholders.

My original Mastodon account was on mastodon.social. I chose it because it’s the largest instance, it’s operated by the developers of the service, and it runs the reference implementati…

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ChatGPT isn’t the only important trend in technology.

These best practices provide a framework for building scalable, portable, maintainable and resilient containerized applications.

Building a database in the 2020s

If you ever connected to the Internet before the 2000s, you probably remember how it sounded. But what do these sounds mean?

There are few sounds that can transport me back to a specific time and place like the handshake of a dialup modem. I heard that ar

What works for Continuous Integration can work for alerting and what doesn’t work for Continuous Integration might not work for alerting, and vice versa.

If you look at the history of computing, configuration management tools have been around since the 1970s. How did we get from make files to Terraform configuration?

Get, Add and Remove JSON Objects from an Array

This blog post explores how Nietzsche's concept of Eternal Return applies to software program management and planning, particularly in startups. It is important to recognize the cyclical patterns of challenges and use them to our advantage by being mindful of past mistakes, defining the project earl

Should you consider GraphQL?

A small rant on the "modern" front-end

Make dumb phones cool again.

How mismanagement at the organisation level caused the best team I've been in to disband.

For the closing keynote of the Southern California Linux Expo, the 80-year-old Unix pioneer Ken Thompson shared the tale of his "75-year-project" that combined his technologist's spirit and his sense of humor – as well as his love of music.

Her name is Mary Johnson. Born in 1917, the year the U.S. entered WWI, two years before women in the same country got the right to vote, she died in 1944, not long before the end of WWII. She was b…

A conversation about Easter eggs hiding in software, why they’re fun, and why they might not always be seen as good things by IT admins.

What is HashiCorp Vault? HashiCorp Vault is a tool designed to address the challenges of managing and securing secrets in modern IT environments. Vault provides a secure, centralized system for storing and managing secrets, such as passwords, API keys, and TLS certificates. Vault supports a wide range of secret types and can be extended to support custom secrets as well. Vault is designed with security in mind and provides several layers of protection for secrets, including encryption, access controls, and auditing.

The most important language enhancements that have been added to Java in the last 20 years